The surname Plaster
A surname, carried by 2,646 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P423
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,646 people named Plaster in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 116,684 Americans. That is up 9.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,407.
#11,829
rank among US surnames
2,646
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+9.9%
change since 2000 (was #11,910)
Who is named Plaster
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
91% of people named Plaster identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.2% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
- White (not Hispanic) 91%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 2.2%
- Two or more races 1.8%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Plaster has the Soundex code P423, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P423.
Questions
- How common is the surname Plaster?
- 2,646 people in the United States had the surname Plaster in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 116,684 Americans. It ranked 11,829th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Plaster?
- In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Plaster identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Plaster getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,407 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,646 in 2010, up 9.9%.